This project aims to bring some of the affordances of consumer social networks to teaching and learning, and will deliver applications within CamTools, our Sakai-based VLE. This is an informal blog by the project team at CARET, University of Cambridge.

Thursday, 8 April 2010

All the outputs there are

Anne-Sophie has produced a wonderful list of all of the project outputs. This will be included in our completion report, but I'm also reproducing it here as I'm sure people will find it useful.

GENERAL OUTPUTS - Showing the complete picture

* The blogThe blog describes the stages through the project. It also contains a lot of pictures taken during the project, and references to other interesting related projects or blogs.
* the handbook (short version)
This handbook (20 pages - here and here) gives you the methodology description of the user research and user-centric design parts of the JISC Academic Networking project.
A run-through, with real examples, pictures and lots of ‘how-do-I-start-on-this’ should enable you to get started on a project, using this methodology yourself.
This output was also presented at Birmingham, using a flyer to promote it.

* the handbook (long version)
This handbook (107 pages - here and here) is the full version of the shorter handbook. It contains much more details, examples and pictures... We would recommend reading the short version rather than this one, but it might be helpful if you want to reproduce such a project yourself.

* the final report (long, but has an executive summary!)
This is the final report to JISC, our funders - PDF.

OUTPUTS FROM RESEARCH PHASE (FIRST PHASE)
The links for the research phase outputs are below, but you can also find them (with matching pictures) here.

* Interview questions script
We also did interviews to gather data. This is the script with question we used when doing these interviews.

ANALYSING THE GATHERED DATA

* Video overview of doing an interview and task-goal analysis
This video shows you how to do an interview, using diaries, but also showing the task-goal analysis which is going on in another room; a clear run-through of the different aspects during this complicated process

* Task-goal analysis video
This video is just a snapshot while we were doing some task-goal analysis. It doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but it can definitely give you a good idea if you want to do it yourself.

* Affinity sorting video
A video showing you how to find themes (clusters) within the bunch of post-its. It doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but it can definitely give you a good idea if you want to do it yourself.

* Profiles close-up videoThis is a snapshot whilst writing up profiles. It doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but it can definitely give you a good idea of what it is if you want to do it yourself.

* Behavioural axes videoSomeone from Flow explaining to us what this exercise is about. It doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but it's a good example to get an idea what this exercise is about.

* PersonasThis is a digitised version of the 3 personas we ended up with, as a major output from our research phase.

BRIDGE BETWEEN RESEARCH AND DESIGN PHASE
You can also find this (with matching pictures) here.

* Focus on personas and scenarios
This document gives an overview of our personas and their relating scenarios. It also gives you some hints and tips on how to create these.

OUTPUTS FROM DESIGN PHASE (SECOND PHASE)
The links for the design phase outputs are below, but you can also find them (with matching pictures) here.

USER TESTING SESSION 1: USING PAPER PROTOTYPES

* General information about our 3 conceptsThis gives a general description of what is meant by each of the concepts.

* Green concept paper prototypesThis is the full set of paper prototype frames used within this concept - mainly focusing on Isobel. Feel free to use this as an example or inspiration.

* Blue concept paper prototypesThis is the full set of paper prototype frames used within this concept - mainly focusing on Peter. Feel free to use this as an example or inspiration.

* Red concept paper prototypesThis is the full set of paper prototype frames used within this concept - mainly focusing on Kate. Feel free to use this as an example or inspiration.

* User testing guide during session 1
This is the set of questions which we used as a guidance during the first user testing session.

* Video on how to do user testing
A brief example video which shows you a real user testing session so you get an idea of what a user testing is like.
This outcome was also presented at Birmingham, using a flyer to promote it.

USER TESTING SESSION 2: USING CLICKABLE WIRE FRAMES

* Set of clickable wire frames
This is the full set of wire frames used within this merged concept and which we also showed to participants during user testing session 2 - it contains all the merged feedback and refinements we got from user testing session 1

* User testing guide during session 2
This is the set of questions which we used as a guidance during the second user testing session.

* Site map
This is a visualisation of all the different main pages within the system. A sitemap helps you during designing as well as to focus on the right tasks during the user testing session.

REFINE LAST VERSION CLICKABLE WIRE FRAMES AFTER USER TESTING

* Set of final wire frames
This is the full set of wire frames which were the result of the feedback we got from user testing session 2.

OUTPUTS FROM CODING PHASE (THIRD PHASE)
One of the outcomes of the JISC Academic Networking project is that the results of the project will be integrated in future releases of the open source Collaboration and Learning Environment Sakai. This outcome was also presented at Birmingham, using a flyer to promote it.

The links for the coding phase outputs are below, but you can also find them here.

SAKAI CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA* Sakai presentation PowerPoint
This presentation on Slideshare was used at the Sakai conference at Boston, presenting the methodology and some outputs like the personas etc.

OXFORD ASSEMBLY ON STAKEHOLDER BUY-IN* The Academic Networking presentation about stakeholder buy-in at the BRII assembly in Oxford
This presentation was used at the BRII assembly in Oxford, presenting the approaches from the Academic Networking project which are specifically useful when targeting stakeholders.

* Handbook on how to involve stakeholders efficiently
This tick-box-shaped document isn’t a walkthrough roadmap, but a list of initiatives you can choose from based on our experiences from the Academic Networking project, in order to involve your stakeholders in an efficient way.
This outcome was also presented at Birmingham, using a flyer to promote it.

ASSEMBLY/WORKSHOPS ON PERSONAS AND HOW TO DO USER TESTING
The links for the assembly outputs are below, but you can also find the full list (with matching pictures) here.
These links are a set of outputs which can be used if you would like to replicate or undertake a similar workshop yourself. Originally this set of documents would also contain some documents which were already mentioned before (like the persona examples), but below you only see those which weren't mentioned yet.
This output was also presented at Birmingham, using a flyer to promote it.

* Persona and user testing workshop PowerPoint
This presentation was used during the assembly, focusing on how to create personas yourself and undertake user testing. This presentation can be used if you would like to undertake such a workshop yourself.

* Persona template
In addition to the examples of the persona we created ourselves, this template of how a persona looks like should give you an idea on how to get started creating one yourself.

* Description of fictive users
You could use this set of 'fictive users' as a set of data when creating personas yourself as an exercise.

* General list of tips when creating a set of questions to use during user testing
This list of hints and tips should help you when creating a list of questions to use during user testing.